Zhan Zhao Adventures - Chapter Seven (Part VII)

Chapter Seven: Mulan Flowers Slow (Part VII)

Shao Jizu suddenly wildly laughed up. Inside his laughing voice, unexpectedly it appeared as if there possessed a few segments of desolation, a few segments of pathos, letting a person for a time be unable to breathe.
 
——"Originally you going to the capital city, was not to go find Little Zhao, but rather was because of him!"
 
His face had already distorted, only because he himself also did not believe everything before his eyes.
 
——"Originally, originally, the one you like already is not the Southern Pure Palace's Little Zhao, unexpectedly it is him!"
 
Huo Linglong gave a blank start. Inside her mind thinking up of him, why then did it just appear as if a knife was cutting?
 
Shao Jizu's laughing voice, became higher and higher. The one he laughed at, already was himself.
 
"Pitiably and regrettably, I and Tang Tianhao, still were doing blue sky and bright day dreams, foolishly thinking and wildly hoping, to let you turn your mind and shift your intent!"
 
His laugh was even more miserable and cutting; not knowing at what time, it had already changed into a bitter smile. Laughing to where tears had all burst and zipped out.
 
It was only that, was this the tear of a broken heart, or the tear of a broken dream? Was it the blood flowing out from the center of the heart, or the tear trace after awakening from a dream?
 
——"Not bad, you finally turned your mind and shifted your intent, finally no longer love the Southern Pure Palace's Little Zhao, but that person who ordered you to turn your mind and shift your intent, unexpectedly was not us, but was him! That which your heart loves, still is not us!"
 
His voice, having reached the afterwards, was already hoarse to the point of not forming sound; could it be that this already was the sound of a broken heart?
 
Shao Jizu's words appeared like lightning and a thunderbolt, shocking Huo Linglong's inside of the brain into a single booming sound. Beneath the evening sun, one's own heart suddenly had already become blood-crystal-like transparent. The open wilderness's wind had already pierced through this blood-colored heavily-moving heart, plucking that late-awakened string.
 
Her blood was already cold, her blood again was already boiling!
 
Huo Linglong finally dared to correctly look at her own heart.
 
She said in a loud voice: "Not bad, I originally precisely liked Little Zhao, but at present it is different. The person I like is him, no longer is Little Zhao!"
 
Between Shao Jizu's brows, there was already anger difficult to detect. He said in a harsh voice: "Could it be that you do not know, inside his heart there fundamentally does not possess you! Inside his heart, from the beginning to the end, that which is present is only another woman!"
 
Before Huo Linglong's face suddenly and without cause arrived a burst of blurriness, her nose unable to bear a single sourness. But her head still proudly hoisted up, saying in a hoarse voice: "I do not care. Only because I like him, he originally precisely did not know!"
 
Shao Jizu's cold laugh appeared as if already able to be ice-cold and pierce to the bone: "You do not care? One is afraid precisely that you do not believe it? It is merely that this believing or not believing also follows and is up to you."
 
His face color recovered its original cold cruelty. Looking at her pain, looking at her humiliation, looking at her torment, as if suddenly gave him a kind of unspeakable quick pleasure.
 
He——wanted——to look.
 
——He only feared looking not enough!
 
He connectedly spoke down, only because he knew she was listening, she wanted to listen: "Although you have already no longer believed my words, you after all are absolutely not a blind person; you being together with him these few days, could it be you cannot look out that what is inside that Zhan Zhao's hand is not the Juque Sword."
 
Huo Linglong muttered: "Not bad, no wonder I all along could not think up that it was he, precisely because I all along heard rumors that Zhan Zhao's worn sword was a single weapon of the gods, called Juque. That sword's shape, I recognize it."
 
Shao Jizu said: "This single sword inside his hand at present is already not Juque, but is Zhanlu. Only because he along with the Ding family's Third Young Miss, has already settled a marriage engagement. This exchanged token of trust is precisely the Zhanlu Sword treasured and stored by the Ding family."
 
Huo Linglong said: "Which Ding family?" Her mouth speaking, inside her heart however without cause arrived a burst of weakness.
 
——That "Blood Double Flight, Crane Soaring to Heaven"——
 
Shao Jizu said faintly: "Which other Ding family can there still be, naturally it is that most famous, most possessing of influence and power Ding family."
 
The most famous, most possessing of influence and power Ding family, only possessed one family.
 
Songjiang Prefecture, Feihua Island, the Ding family of the Mohua Manor.
 
Huo Linglong's face color had already turned pale, for a time the entire body was completely ice-cold.
 
——She in the final result after all could or could not not care?
 
Shao Jizu just so looked at her. Looking at her, then already the mind was tangled, then suddenly again he regretted.
 
——Although not skilled at words, he had once for her been crazy, for her been intoxicated, for her been spirit-wounded, had once been accustomed to looking at her brows, her eyes, her micro-smile. But at present, these brows and eyes, this facial countenance, however were for another person turning haggard.
 
Between him and her, there already possessed another person's silhouette.
 
He appeared as if again seeing Huo Linglong's highly hoisted head, and the pride inside that pair of water-like black eyes. Faintly hearing her voice: "You precisely cannot compare up to him!"
 
A strand of nameless raging fire within an instant then burned to where the blood of his entire body also appeared to boil. The energy of Kang-yang appeared as if wanting to expand and burst his head open.
 
He bit his teeth, he turned his body and then departed.
 
He only wanted to return to Xiangyang, only wanted to see one person!
 
Huo Linglong could not bear to say: "You, where do you go?"
 
Shao Jizu coldly said: "Naturally it is to return to the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion."
 
Huo Linglong's lips slightly and delicately trembled for a single turn, and said: "Then, then, he, how is he?"
 
Shao Jizu did not turn his head, he with light sketching and faint writing said: "What can I do to him? I can only ruin him. I not only want to ruin his face, but additionally want to ruin everything of his." His words originally did not count as gnashing teeth and carving bones, the voice was also unspeakably peaceful, calm, and low, as if these few sentences of words that ordered a person to be cold down to the heart and lungs fundamentally were not spat out from his mouth. Only this final single sentence, the voice then began to slightly give a shock, finally revealing and spitting out the inner heart's surging agitation.
 
Huo Linglong said in alarm: "Shao Jizu! I in vain knew you! I originally thought you were a hero, only at present have I discovered you are no more than a scoundrel. You so torment a person who bears heavy injuries, what kind of hero or good fellow do you still count as."
 
Shao Jizu said in an evil and fierce manner: "I am neither any Southern Hero respected by everyone upon the martial forest, nor am I a red-hot person upon whom the Son of Heaven Majesty's honor and favor gather in one body, fundamentally am not a hero or good fellow. It is merely that Zhan Zhao he strongly forced his way into the Chongxiao Tower, and additionally took away the Prince's supreme treasure; at present since he has fallen inside the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion, how can I let him pass."
 
Speaking to here, even more a strand of gloomy, cold, and proud micro-smile, from that gaze of ice and fire, drop by drop seeped out, within an instant then filled the entire face: "You must not forget, the Bai Yutang in front strongly forced his way into the Chongxiao Tower, and fell into what kind of a downward ending!"
 
Huo Linglong ate a single shock, and said: "The one you speak of is it that white mouse of the Xiankong Island? Could it be that he——"
 
Shao Jizu said: "Naturally it is the downward ending of not measuring one's own strength, using an egg to hit a rock. A dozen or so days ago, he had already been pierced by the rolling-thunder arrows of the Chongxiao Tower to where he was identical to a hedgehog. The one surnamed Zhan later forced his way into the Chongxiao Tower, mostly also was for this Bai Yutang, for the sake of snatching and capturing this portion of supreme treasure of the Prince. That night, if it were not that you also precisely arrived at the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion, and I had no choice but to along with a few people divide bodies to come deal with you, Zhan Zhao he one is afraid also would not have been so easy to then walk out of the high-hand surrounding attacks of the Copper Net Array! It is merely that although he by luck escaped his body, he however also received heavy injuries. Otherwise, with his lightness kungfu, inside the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion who again could catch up to him!"
 
Huo Linglong's heart again pained like a knife cutting.
 
Originally that night when she went to the Prince of Xiangyang's mansion to find the Prince of Xiangyang's trouble and Shao Jizu's bad luck, Zhan Zhao precisely also was thinking of ways to obtain from the Chongxiao Tower this yellow silk fabric which at present was precisely inside her own embrace, and had generated a single fierce battle with the high hands of the Jinshi Hall!
 
Her expression could not help but turn downcast, and she muttered: "No wonder from the very beginning when I met him, his face color was so frightening. No wonder the 'At First Sight As If Old Friends' upon his body was only possessed six days ago."
 
——It was only that she did not understand, since he bore a heavy responsibility, and additionally had injuries upon his body, why did he not as quickly as possible hurry toward the capital city, but additionally must along the way early and late successively trade hands connectedly with the people of the Xingyun Manor and the Hanshui Palace?
 
——Could it be she truly did not know? Was she or was she not already not daring to think down!
 
Huo Linglong drooped down her head. Her heart was even more tangled, tangled to where there only remained a single slice of blankness, tangled to where before her eyes was a single slice of dizziness.
 
——The evening sun upon the open wilderness, why was it so piercing to the eyes?
 
The lip she bit, had already been bitten to where blood came out.
 
She suddenly lifted up her head, only because she had already made a decision.
 
Her voice was very peaceful and calm, but her face color however had already turned white: "You people can harm Bai Yutang, naturally can also harm him. I only want you to know, that he at present has fallen into your hands fundamentally is not your merit; the one that harmed him is precisely that chivalrous heart of his!"
 
Speaking to here, her voice was even more resolute: "In truth, I originally precisely knew, you people absolutely would not toward him kindly stop and give up, it is merely that I also want you to know, if you harm him, then you also harm me. If he dies, I also will not live. Our Huo family's Linglong Eye, this generation will eternally not be obtained by you and the Prince of Xiangyang!"
 
Upon Shao Jizu's handsome face it appeared as if a fire-light flashed, but was pressed down by the cold indifference with which Huo Linglong was familiar.
 
He slowly opened his mouth.
 
He bound to must speak very slowly, bound to must let her hear clearly. Inside his spoken words, unexpectedly it was a calmness that ordered a person to shudder without being cold——"How can I again bear to kill him? I of course want to save him. Letting him just like this die, how can it then be worthy of you. He at present has fallen into the hands of the Prince of Xiangyang; I want to let him live not as good as dying, let him painfully hate why he still is born in this human world!"
 
That pair of eyes of his that were both cold yet hot stared onto her, cruelty already was identical to being born along with him as if carved inside his gaze, inside his lips, inside his facial expression.
 
"As for you," he maliciously smiled, "how can I again bear to harm you? You after all are about to be my wife; I this being a husband, always must be considerate and look after, only then can let you be happy. Furthermore, even if I want to harm him, I do not necessarily have to first think of ways to harm you——harming you, toward him what use does it again possess, you are also not his heart's beloved person!"
 
These words were just like a whip. Huo Linglong's body gave a tremble, as if being by a whip fiercely lashed for a single turn.
 
——It was only that this pain, was it upon the body, or was it inside the heart?
 
Shao Jizu finally again stepped open his footsteps, walking toward the front.
 
His silhouette, beneath the evening sun, appeared as if it were a proudly lonely and lost god.
 
Departing further and further from her, his heart then possessed a kind of more and more intense pain. A strand of unable-to-be-suppressed craziness several times ordered him to want to turn back his body go, yet ordered him to want to continue toward the front walk go.
 
He——so——hated!
 
Suddenly, behind a clear, bright, yet tightly pressed voice sounded up: "Wait one wait!"
 
It was her voice!
 
Shao Jizu appeared as if suddenly falling into a dream that would eternally not awaken, his body suddenly then stiffened. This single sound had already ordered him to be identical to a stone statue, no longer able to step or move his footsteps.
 
Inside his eyes, it appeared as if there were raging fire in the middle of burning.
 
Inside Huo Linglong's eyes also it appeared as if there were raging fire in the middle of burning. Burning her face, beneath the evening sun, also to where red-colored flames were jumping.
 
She waited for Shao Jizu to turn his body over, then slowly extended her hand into her embrace, taking out a piece of yellow colored silk fabric.
 
Immediately, Shao Jizu's body had already not stopped trembling, to where even breathing also because of it stopped!
 
——Looking at that piece of yellow colored silk fabric, it just appeared as if looking at his life. The flashing of ice and fire inside his eyes was question, was non-understanding, yet additionally possessed excitement.
 
His face color, however, was unspeakably ferocious. Only after a long time did he then with difficulty say: "This supreme treasure of the Chongxiao Tower, fruitfully and truly is inside your hand!"
 
Huo Linglong said in a slow and unhurried manner: "What my hand center grips, appears as if I also do not know whether it is or is not your life-root, whether it is or is not your that Prince's life-root. It is merely that inside this hand center of mine, beneath this yellow silk fabric, there additionally is a single Thunder God-Fire Pellet. You yourself always ought to know, how this Tang Sect's marvelous and rare supreme treasure arrived inside my hand."
 
Shao Jizu's face color suddenly turned white, but inside his eyes there however possessed fierceness and fear.
 
——It just appeared as if these five words "Thunder God-Fire Pellet" possessed boundless magic power and danger, at once then snatching away his soul.
 
Huo Linglong spoke in a mocking manner: "Do not blame Little Tang. This originally precisely was me looking at it as fun, begging it from him to play with. Yet did not think, that on today it would dispatch onto a use-place!"
 
Her voice was already somewhat unfeeling: "You yourself also know, no matter how fast your hand-technique is, it additionally cannot be faster than my Huo family's lightness kungfu. Although your sword-technique conquered and surpassed me, wanting to catch and grasp me, you still have to again practice for thirty years."
 
Shao Jizu said: "What do you want?"
 
Huo Linglong said: "You yourself already are extremely clear, why additionally must you ask me? I only ask you, do you want or not want to exchange."
 
Shao Jizu was already almost unable to breathe, ordering him to not detect that he unexpectedly asked a foolish question: "Exchange for what?"
 
——Perhaps he had already completely understood her meaning, yet preferred to ask for a clear understanding, hoping he could be able to possess time to come ponder his own and the opposing party's bottom cards.
 
Huo Linglong said: "I use the thing you most want to obtain, to exchange for the person I want to obtain!"
 
Inside her voice one could not hear any hesitation: "One object exchanges for one person."
 
Shao Jizu hesitated.
 
His chest area, however, inexplicably and without reason turned hot up. Inside the clothing lapel pressed against his chest area, what was carried was his specially made rocket token for summoning the Jinshi Hall.
 
For a time, this token appeared as if inside his heart-mouth gave a single jump.
 
——It was merely that he also was unable to divide clearly, was it his token in motion, or was it his own heart moving?